The Peking Man’s bones changed everything we knew about the earliest humans—then vanished in the chaos of post-war China. Yet there’s a chance we soon might unearth them a second time.
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“They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” Joni Mitchell sang in 1970, decrying our modern frenzy of development. But perhaps no one feels this loss more acutely than one of our early ancestors.
